{"id":7369,"date":"2023-09-24T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pakistan-railways-refutes-report-of-multiple-injuries-in-sheikhupura-train-collision\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:02:11","slug":"pakistan-railways-refutes-report-of-multiple-injuries-in-sheikhupura-train-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-refutes-report-of-multiple-injuries-in-sheikhupura-train-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Railways refutes report of multiple injuries in Sheikhupura train collision"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pakistan Railways on Sunday refuted media reports of multiple injuries during a collision of two trains in Punjab\u2019s Sheikhupura.<\/p>\n

At 4:50am today, the Mianwali Express, enroute Lahore, rammed into another train parked in the loop line at the Qila Sattar Shah station.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll passengers aboard the train remained safe during the accident,\u201d Railways spokesperson Babar Ali told Dawn.com<\/em>, adding that one passenger, who had a pre-existing heart condition, was wounded and had been moved to the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cReports of 31 or 21 injured persons in the Mianwali Express accident are based on lies,\u201d the railways spokesperson clarified.<\/p>\n

Ali confirmed that the track was cleared by 7:30am shortly after which Mianwali Express continued its journey to Lahore.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrain driver Imran Sarwar and assistant driver Muhammad Bilal have been suspended for negligence,\u201d he said, adding that an inquiry committee had been formed on the directives of the Ministry of Railways.<\/p>\n

The committee, Ali added, had been told to submit a report on the incident within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the accident, Railways Chairman Mazhar Ali Shah said action would be taken against those responsible according to the law while CEO Shahid Aziz asserted that there would be no compromise on safety.<\/p>\n

At least 30 people died and several others were left wounded after a train derailed<\/a> near Nawabshah last month. During the inquiry that followed the accident, six Railways officials, including two 18-grade officers, were suspended.<\/p>\n

Accidents and derailments occur frequently on Pakistan\u2019s antiquated railway system, which has nearly 7,500 kilometres of track and carries more than 80 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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At 4:50am today, the Mianwali Express, enroute Lahore, rammed into another train parked in the loop line at the Qila Sattar Shah station. \u201cAll passengers aboard the train remained safe during the accident,\u201d Railways spokesperson Babar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/09\/24135532341f497.jpg?r=135913","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}